Taiwan is a small island bordering the East China Sea‚ Philippine Sea‚ Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. With a population of 22‚858‚872 (from July‚ 2007) Taiwan is about the size of Maryland and Delaware combined. Eighty four percent of Taiwan’s people are of Taiwanese and Hakka decent. Fourteen percent of the people are made up of main land Chinese and two percent of the people are aborigine. Taiwan’s government is a multi party democratic regime headed by a popular elected president. Those
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Website: www.cbseacademic.in Tel: 23212603 Tele Fax: 23234324 E-mail: director@cbseacademic.in Central Board of Secondary Education (An autonomous Organisation under the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development‚ Govt. of India) ‘Shiksha Sadan’‚ 17-Rouse Avenue‚ New Delhi – 110 002 CBSE/ACAD/Dir(Arti)/2013 Circular No: Acad-73/2013 Dated : November 06‚ 2013 All the Heads of Institutions affiliated to CBSE‚ Subject: Modified syllabus-2014 ‚ Design of assessment and sample
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COUNTRY: CANADA Table of Contents 1 Country‚ Politics and Industry Background 1.1 Brief on Political System Resource: wikipedia Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Canada is a federal state that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. Canada has strong democratic
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The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. government that was established in 1915 and charged with keeping American business competition free and fair. The FTC has no jurisdiction over banks and common carriers‚ which are under the supervision of other governmental agencies. It has five members‚ not more than three of whom may be members of the same political party‚ appointed by the President‚ with the consent of the Senate‚ for seven-year terms. The act was part of the program
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Politics of Maharashtra After India’s independence‚ most of Maharashtra’s political history was dominated by the Indian National Congress party. Maharashtra became a bastion of the Congress party producing stalwarts such as Yashwantrao Chavan‚ Vasantdada Patil‚ Shankarrao Chavan‚ Vasantrao Naik‚ Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sharad Pawar. The party enjoyed near unchallenged dominance of the political landscape until 1995 when the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured an overwhelming
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6 Most Important Things to Consider When Choosing a Broker The retail forex market is so competitive that just thinking about having to sift through all the available brokers can give you a major headache. Choosing which broker to trade with can be a very overwhelming task especially if you don’t know what you should be looking for. In this section‚ we will discuss the qualities you should look for when picking a broker. 1. Security The first and foremost characteristic that a good broker must
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Student Notes Questions -Landforms produced by glacial erosion 5. Below in a sketch of a corrie post-glacial. Over-deepened basin caused by erosion due to rotational flow. Post-glaciation‚ a corrie may be filled with a tarn. This is water that has been collected in the hollow; it is dammed by the rock lip. Over-deepened basin caused by erosion due to rotational flow. Post-glaciation‚ a corrie may be filled with a tarn. This is water that has been collected in the hollow; it is dammed by the rock
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On 4th October 2001‚ I went on geography field trip to Ashdown Forest. We got out of the coach and started to walk towards the river source. Unfortunately due to the lack of weather there wasn’t any water. It was dry rather than muddy. We took some notes of landscape then we started walk towards the waterfall which was also dry. We could see where the drop was and where the hard rock eroded away soft rock. We took some measurement of the fall (width and depth). Secondly we walked toward the V-shaped
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values and assumptions that have guided or driven the process (Ralston Saul 2005). The problem with globalisation is that it is not so much an ‘it’ as a ‘them’: it is not a single process but a complex processes‚ sometimes overlapping and interlocking but also‚ at times‚ contradictory and oppositional. It is therefore difficult to reduce globalisation to a single theme. Nevertheless‚ the various development and manifestations that are associated with globalisation‚ or indeed globality‚ can be
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Watch 16 Feb. 2010; The Human Rights Brief 3 Mar. 2010; Balkan Insight 5 Dec. 2007). Media sources report that the gay community has been primarily underground (BBC 30 July 2009; Reuters 5 Feb. 2010). In a telephone interview with the Research Directorate on 10 September 2010‚ an LGBT rights activist from the US with a Ph.D. in Anthropology‚ who lived in Albania‚ participated in the US embassy speakers program and was a founding member of the Tirana-based LGBT rights organization Aleanca Kunder Diskriminimit
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